By BERNIE BELLANIt was billed as an evening that would be devoted to “Rabbi Zalman Schachter and the Winnipeg origins of the Jewish Renewal Movement”.Like just about everything else associated with the late Rabbi Schachter (who died in 2014 at the age of 90), it was an evening not without controversy.

The following release was issued by the JNF Manitoba-Saskatchewan on Dec. 8: The Jewish National Fund of Canada – Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Branch is proud to announce that Rabbi Alan Green, Senior Rabbi of Shaarey Zedek Congregation will be the 2017 Negev Gala honouree.

By BERNIE BELLAN I've been somewhat obsessed of late by the incredibly large influx of Russian Israelis into Manitoba, I was doing some further research into just how many Russian Israelis have come here in recent years.I was able to find statistics from the Province of Manitoba for the years 2009-2014 which go to show a snapshot of just how huge the level of immigration from Israel to Manitoba has been.

Elsewhere on this website you can find an article about the history of the quota system at the University of Manitoba medical school. In response to that article we received the following letter from well-known historian Allan Levine:

By BERNIE BELLANOkay, the following story is not of earth-shaking importance…it’s just one of those typical kinds of stories that can work individuals like me into a high dudgeon.It was on Monday, November 28 that I really noticed the ridiculous imbalance between reserved and non-reserved parking stalls in the Asper Campus parking lot. It was 9:30 a.m. and I was there to attend the Rady JCC wellness fair.

By EKA MEDNIKOV (English translatiion of Hebrew article)Myself being a Russian – Israel immigrant and resident of Winnipeg for almost nine years, I believe that I can understand the reason for the high number of immigrants from Israel to Winnipeg.

It is very misleading to focus on the ethnic origin question in regards to defining the Jewish population. Researchers use a 6 point scale to create Jewish pop counts with Census data but only every 10 years when religion is asked. Jackie http://cija.ca/disappearing-jews/

I found it interesting to learn of these hockey pros from our community. There seems to be a big gap in time from when Max played hockey in the 40's to what would be retirement age. I am just wondering what his post hockey pro career was. There was nothing in the article about it. Ed. note: If you ...